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DYNAMO ELEGTRIG MACHINE. N0.-296,857. v Patented Apr. 15, 1884.

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ADOLPH E. GUSTAV LUBKE, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

DYNAMO-VELECTRIC MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,857, dated April 15, 1884:.

Application filed March 13, 1984. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADOLPH E. GUSTAV LUBKE, of the city and State of New York,

tator bars or plates, and two or more ranges of loops have been placed side by side; but, as these havelto be insulated from each other, the thickness of the armature-wheel has been increased and the distance between the poles of the magnets has been augmented, and hence the electric energy set up by the magnetism has, been lessened.

My invention has for its object the connecting up of two or more ranges of loops in the armature-wheel in such a manner that all the radial bars are in the same plane; hence the field-magnets can be placed in as close proximity to the revolving armature-wheel as possible, and the greatest electrical effect obtained from the magnetism of said fieldmagnets.

In the drawings, Figure l is a vertical section longitudinally of the shaft. Fig. 2 is an elevation and partial sectional view of the armature-loops. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 as adapted to two ranges of loops. Fig. 4 is a diagram of the relative positions of the rim of the armature-wheels and bars, with two sets of loops. Fig. 5 is a similar view with three sets of loops. Fig. 6 represents the circuit-connections where there are three armature-plates in one range connected up into one circuit and to the commutator-plates. Fig. 7 represents the three separate ranges of loops connected up for a set of commutator-bars for each range of loops.

The field-magnets N S are preferably arranged in two circular rows, with the poles facing each other and with the poles alternating. The construction of these is of an ordipole of the field-magnet S, and uniting the bars 0 c at their outer ends, and a similar lateral projection, 0 at the hub uniting the alternate inner ends. So, likewise, the bars d are united at their alternate outer ends by the lateralprojection (1 over the pole-faces of the field magnets N and similar lateral proj ections, 6?, at the inner ends of the alternate bars cl, so that each set forms a complete ring of radial bars connected at outer and inner ends alternately, and each ring is free from contact with the other; but the bars 0 d are all in one plane. So, likewise, if there is a third range, the bars 0 are connected in pairs outside the bars 0 d by an arch-piece, c, and at the alternate inner ends by a similar arch-piece, e.

These are in the same plane as the bars 0, d, I

and 6, but outside and inside their respective ends and the connecting-bars c d and 0 (l and hence free from contact. This improve ment allows for the use of as many bars as possible, and at the same time the radial bars that are the same distance apart as the axes of the field-magnets are united, so that the currents are set up in the ranges-of armature helix. bars as they pass the respective poles. In some instances I prefer to make the bars 6 e c of layers of thin metal plates, with layers of insulating material between them, so as to allow for several separate connections to com mutators and external cii'cuits to be made, these connections being taken off from the inner parts, e to the commutator-bars in the usual manner. If a current of intensity is desired, the separate plates composing the bars 0 c 6" may be connected up in one circuit by separating one of the bars a in each plate and uniting it to the next end of the next plate, and so on throughout the layers, and then tak ing off the connections to the commutatorplates from one of the armature-plates. These connections to the arniatureplates, being well known, do not require further description. They are, however, represented in Fig. 6.

The radial bars 0 (Z and their connections a c" d (Z may be made of layers of insulated plates similar to the plates 0 c e, if desired, and they may be connected up with the armature-plates in the same manner.

In the drawings I have only represented three sets of radial bars connected up into three circuits; but it will be evident that a larger number of such sets of radial bars all in the same plane may be made use of in the ar1nature-wheel.

l. I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with the circular ranges of field-magnets, of a revolving armature C0111- posed of radial bars, all in the same plane, and connected up in two or more circuit-rings by means of lateral connections that pass alternately from the outer and the inner ends of such radial bars, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a circular armaturewheel, of radial bars all in one plane, and alternate lateral connections from the respective bars, to compose two or more separate armature-helices, substantially as set forth.

3. In a circular ar1nature-wheel, radial bars composed of thin plates set together flatwise, with insulating material between, and connected up into a circuit by the alternate connections at the ends, substantially as set forth.

t. In an a1'1nature-wheel, the radial bars in two ranges, connected together at their outer ends and at the alternate inner ends of the respective ranges, substantially as specified.

Signed by me this 7th day of lllarch, A. l). 1884.

ii llOhlll E. GUSTAV hIIBKE.

\Vitnesses:

G150. T. PINcKNny, \VILLIAM G. Mor'r. 

